Samuel D. Ingham

Samuel Delucenna Ingham (16 September 1779-5 June 1860) was a member of the US House of Representatives (DR-PA 6) from 4 March 1813 to 6 July 1818 (succeeding William Crawford and preceding Samuel Moore) and from 7 October 1822 to 3 March 1823 (succeeding Moore and preceding Robert Harris) and from PA-8 from 4 March 1823 to 4 March 1829 (preceding Peter Ihrie Jr.), and US Secretary of the Treasury from 6 March 1829 to 20 June 1831 (succeeding Richard Rush and preceding Louis McLane).

Biography
Samuel Delucenna Ingham was born in New Hope, Pennsylvania in 1779, and he became the manager of a paper mill in Bloomfield, New Jersey. He returned to Pennsylvania in 1800 and served in the State House from 1806 to 1808, in the US House of Representatives from 1813 to 1818 and from 1822 to 1829, and as Secretary of the Treasury from 1829 to 1831. He opposed the circulation of paper currency and supported coins instead, and he also attempted to mediate between President Andrew Jackson and the Second Bank of the United States during the Bank War. In 1830, he became President of the Beaver Meadow Railroad Company, and he also promoted the construction of canals. He died in Trenton in 1860.